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Dean Wicks

Hey 5AS, can you protect this page. This ip is set on an agenda of inclusion of banal details.GunGagdin ^Moan 14:06, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Yup they certainly do seem that way especially as I had a word with them earlier, they've acknowledged the warning and then carried on.

Done for one week.--5 albert square (talk) 15:28, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for that :) GunGagdin^Moan 15:40, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

Hiya 5AS, when you get a moment can you check out AP's discussion re backstories on my talk page. Be good to have more opinions.GunGagdin ^Moan 17:23, 27 May 2015 (UTC)

The Signpost: 27 May 2015

News and notes: WMF releases quarterly reports, annual plans

The Wikimedia Foundation recently switched to a quarterly report structure to better align reporting with the generally quarterly planning and goal-setting processes.

In the media: Scrubbing Parliamentary biographies; Wikipedia's invisible history

British media reports on Wikipedia editing to articles of Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom prior to the May 7 United Kingdom general election from IP addresses assigned to Parliament.

Discussion report: A relic from the past that needs to be updated

To many, Internet Relay Chat is an old relic, but not to Wikipedia. Wikipedia currently has an IRC help channel designated to help and assist editors with editing Wikipedia.

Featured content: When music was confined to a ribbon of rust

Fifteen featured articles, four featured lists, and six featured pictures were promoted this week.

Recent research: Drug articles accurate and largely complete; women "slightly overrepresented"; talking like an admin

Wikipedia's articles on drugs are pretty good – good enough to impress even doctors. A new research study adds some substance to that impression.

Traffic report: Summer, summer, summertime

As usual for the time of year, pop culture rules this week. The start of summer vacation in the US means a focus on summer movies, particularly blockbuster sequels Avengers: Age of Ultron, Pitch Perfect 2 and Mad Max: Fury Road.

Technology report: MediaWiki blows up printers

...allegedly. In a post to wikitech-l, Steven Walling pointed out that the TV show CSI: Cyber had used a screenshot of MediaWiki's HTML output and claimed it was responsible for blowing up printers.

Please comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)

The feedback request service is asking for participation in this request for comment on Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). Legobot (talk) 00:10, 30 May 2015 (UTC)

Tech News: 2015-23

Latest tech news from the Wikimedia technical community. Please tell other users about these changes. Not all changes will affect you. Translations are available.

Problems

Many wikis were slow for a few hours on Wednesday due to a code error. Sometimes the pages did not load at all and showed an error. [1]
Some tools in Labs were broken on Wednesday and Thursday. [2]
Edit tags added by the software were broken on all wikis from May 23 to May 28. [3] [4]

Changes this week

The new version of MediaWiki has been on test wikis and MediaWiki.org since May 27. It will be on non-Wikipedia wikis from June 2. It will be on all Wikipedias from June 3 (calendar).
You won't be able to use e-mail lists for a few hours on Tuesday. [5]

Meetings

You can join the next meeting with the Editing team. During the meeting, you can tell developers which bugs are the most important. The meeting will be on June 3 at 18:00 (UTC). See how to join.

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15:46, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Question

Original message: Hello, I'm 5 albert square. I noticed that you made an edit concerning content related to a living (or recently deceased) person on Terry Sue-Patt, but you didn’t support your changes with a citation to a reliable source, so I removed it. Wikipedia has a strict policy concerning how we write about living people, so please help us keep such articles accurate. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Please read the reference. It refers to him as African. 5 albert square (talk) 17:23, 25 May 2015 (UTC)

If this is a shared IP address, and you did not make the edits, consider creating an account for yourself so you can avoid further irrelevant notices.

My response: Hi, I haven't edited any web pages recently, and I rarely do. I don't even know who the person you've referred to is, so I'm slightly concerned if this editing is connected to my IP. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.69.189.67 (talk) 01:12, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

Hi, no worries, you may have simply been allocated an IP that has previously been assigned to someone else who did edit the page.--5 albert square (talk) 05:36, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Dead link tags per [6]

For journal articles one can just remove the urls if they are dead rather than tagging them as long as either a PMID or DOI is present. (the url just means there was once a freely viewable version and there is not any more)
If an archive url is present such as this one was [7] adding a second dealink tag is not needed, especially as one dead link tag was already there
If links are dead it is much more useful to add an archive.org link. We really need a bot to do this for all our urls. Will look at seeing if I can convince anyone to build one. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:18, 1 June 2015 (UTC)